Vase

Wedgwood

  • Titles Vase (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 8 1/2 x 4 3/8 in. (21.6 x 11.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.820.2010
  • Work Type vase
  • Classification Containers

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Large, oblong vase of heavy, beige glazed stoneware, the sides are rounded and the opening at the top is narrow, each end of the vase is decorated in an abstract, semi-geometric pattern in shades of gray, white, rust, black, and beige, the central body is decorated on each side with a broad stripe of mottled, almost metallic, gray glaze.
Cylindrical black jasper beer/ale pump column with white relief decoration of a woman with a wreath and a bird on her finger and on the other side a lady with a twig.
Small round brooch comprised of a double-sided circular band of dark blue jasperware set into a mount of silver, the band decorated on both sides with small white jasper reliefs of the signs of the zodiac, the center part loosely mounted and likewise set in a silver mount and containing a lock of Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson's hair (reputedly), along with three small pearls, and strands of gold twine under glass, the reverse contains a piece of white grosgrain fabric under glass in the center, with a simple pin closure.
Miniature commemorative spill vase of cylindrical shape of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, on one side the portrait bust of Josiah Wedgwood with the name JOSIAH WEDGWOOD and dates 1730-1795 in banners below, on the other the coat of arms of the Wedgwood baronetcy Gules four Mullets in Cross and a Canton Argent and on a Ducal Coronet a Lion passant Argent with the motto "Obstantia Discindo" (I split asunder obstacles) in a banner below.